 | Justin McCarthy - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 510 pages
...always sure to follow it. THE DUTIES OF A EEPKESENTATIVE. From the Bristol Speech, November 3, 1774. It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - 244 pages
...decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest nnion, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved communication with his constituents. Their... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...following is the passage referred to :— " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a repre" sentative to live in the strictest union, the closest " correspondence, and the most unreserved communi" cation with his constituents. Their wishes ought to " have great weight with him; their opinion,... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...relation of a member of Parliament to his constituents. He believed it to be "the happiness and the glory of a representative to live in the strictest...most unreserved communication with his constituents." "It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs, and above all,... | |
 | United States. 92d Congress, 2d session, 1972, United States. Congress - Legislators - 1972 - 122 pages
...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs — and above all, ever, and in all cases to prefer their interest... | |
 | David B. Chandler - Law - 1976 - 268 pages
...abolitionists reiterated the famous speech by Edmund Burke in 1774 and quoted from it: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the more unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him;... | |
 | Heinz Eulau - Political Science - 1977 - 132 pages
...role, the modern representative cannot possibly measure up to Edmund Burke's solemn injunction that "it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents."9 It matters not, for this purpose, to review whatever else Burke said about representation,... | |
 | Leo Bogart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 308 pages
...trend of opinion? Edmund Burke, in his speech to the electors of Bristol on November 3, 1774, said, "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . ." But, Burke went on to say, "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment;... | |
 | Paul Langford - History - 1991 - 640 pages
...as a representative of the empire's second city, and went out of his way to stress that he thought it 'ought to be the happiness and glory of a Representative,...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents'.t75 He was a dutiful and industrious constituency MP. None the less he had a clear sense... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...possible."— Congressional Record, October 22, 1965, vol. I11, p. 28566. 280 Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
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Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. 
